THE GREAT INDIAN DESERT OR THAR DESERT

It is the world’s 17th largest desert, and the world’s 9th largest subtropical desert.

In India, it covers about 320,000 km2, of which 60% is in Rajasthan and extends into Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana.

About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and the remaining part in Pakistan.

The desert continues into Pakistan as the Cholistan Desert.

Annual temperatures can range from 0°C in the winter to over 50°C during the summer.

This region gets very less rainfall which is less than 150 mm in a year.

Luni is the only large river but some streams appear during rainy season.

The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan. It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer and ends in the marshy lands of Ran of Kutch in Gujarat.

Crescent-shaped dunes (barchans) are found in this area.

Great Rann of Kuchchh

It is a seasonal salt marsh located in the Thar Desert in the Kutch District of Gujarat, India.

In India’s summer monsoon, the flat desert of salty clay and mudflats, which average 15 meters above sea level, fills with standing water. In very wet years, the wetland extends from the Gulf of Kutch on the west through to the Gulf of Cambay on the east.

This is one of the hottest areas of India – with summer temperatures averaging and peaking at 49.5 °C. Winter temperatures reduce dramatically and can go below 0 °C (32 °F).

THE COASTAL PLAINS

The coastal plains of India are located along the Arabian Sea coast in the west and along the Bay of Bengal coast in the east.

The coastal plains were formed by the depositional action of the rivers and the erosional and depositional actions of the sea-waves.

According to their location to the east or west of the peninsular, they are called: East coastal plain, and West coastal plain.

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